2010年，鑽油平台「深水地平線」（Deepwater Horizon）在美國路易斯安納州墨西哥灣鑽探位於水面下5千呎深的油井，可是在4月20日上午，甲烷氣從鑽探井深處噴發，造成爆炸，引發熊熊大火，威力驚人，平台變成一團烈焰火球，即將沉入海面，平台上的126名員工性命危在旦夕，平台技師麥克威廉斯（馬克華柏格 飾）與幾名頂尖技師和工程師逃過一劫，但他們得在千鈞一髮的生死關頭救出其他同僚，設法讓傷害降到最低。眼前是茫茫火海和滾滾濃煙，周圍是一望無際的海洋，他們只能搏命奮戰，拼死求生。 這起改編自真實社會事件是轟動全球的2010年美國墨西哥灣漏油事件，一座在美國墨西哥灣的鑽油平台發生故障，導致前所未有、威力驚人的大規模爆炸，造成多名人員傷亡、失蹤，倖存者險象環生，此外更要再艱困環境中設法阻止因爆炸而引發的另一場世紀海洋生態浩劫。深海浩劫，深水地平線，Deepwater Horizon
The idyllic life of a young Cajun boy and his pet raccoon is disrupted when the tranquility of the bayou is broken by an oil well drilling near his home.
The story of a little loggerhead turtle, as she follows in the path of her ancestors on one of the most extraordinary journeys in the natural world. Born on a beach in Florida, she rides the Gulf Stream up towards the Arctic and ultimately swims around the entire North Atlantic across to Africa and back to the beach where she was born. But the odds are stacked against her; just one in ten thousand turtles survive the journey.
1971 post civil rights San Francisco seemed like the perfect place for a black Korean War veteran and his family to realize their dream of economic independence, and a chance for him to be his own boss. Charlie Walker would soon find out how naive he was. In a city full of impostors and naysayers, he refused to take "No" for an answer. That is, until a catastrophic disaster opened a door that had never been open to a black man before. This is a story about what happened when he stepped through that door with both feet.
Barker White documents the environmental impact of the massive BP spill.
HBO Documentary Films Presents the story of the effort to save the 895th surviving oiled pelican in Louisiana, showing how conservationists, government agencies and wildlife activists joined forces to preserve this one life.
On March 24, 1989, the supertanker Exxon Valdez ran aground in the pristine waters of Alaska's Prince William Sound, spilling 11 million gallons of crude oil. Jean-Michel Cousteau, son of Jacques Cousteau, takes us on a voyage to investigate first-hand the devastating impact of the U.S.'s largest oil spill. Amid the majestic mountains and ice floes of this serene setting, the leaking oil spreads like a virus staining and often killing everything it encounters. Harbor seals, sea otters, and bald eagles fall victim to the tragic accident.
The imagination of history in Ecuador never thought that oil, “its redeeming hope”, discovered in the Lago Agrio No. 1 well, was going to mean the beginning of the worst environmental catastrophe on the planet. Thirty years of operation and exploitation of the Texaco company, forever transformed the rivers and estuaries, the forests and the life of the indigenous communities in the northern Amazon of Ecuador.
This is a film about the response by a community to New Zealand’s largest environmental disaster, seen through the eyes of that community. The film captures the shock, anger and grief driven into the heart of the local community, but also the humour, purpose and overwhelming positivity when people join together with a common goal.